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  • The Stream Web App - 365 Message Center Show #246

    The Stream Web App – with special guest Marc Mroz

    Microsoft Stream is getting ready to become a web app and we have a special guest: Marc Mroz, Principal Program Manager Lead for Microsoft Stream! The preview will soon switch to GA and present us with a list of all the Stream videos we have access to across Microsoft 365. There's even a message this week showing us a first cut of the Stream Videos page that can be created for SharePoint sites.

  • Multiple home sites for Viva Connections - 365 Message Center Show #242

    Multiple home sites for Viva Connections

    Large organizations with divisions and segmentation will soon be able to use Viva Connections with multiple home sites. This will include multiple dashboards and resource tabs to make management and segmentation easier.

  • Shared Focus plan in Viva Insights, Walkie-Talkie GA for iOS - 365 Message Center Show #226

    Shared Focus plan in Viva Insights, Walkie-Talkie GA for iOS

    We discuss the new shared Focus plan in Viva Insights. Managers and team leaders can create a plan and invite members to coordinate their focus time to focus together. It reduces scheduling team meetings over member's focus time and builds mutual productivity norms.

  • Spam Notification in Call Toast - 365 Message Center Show #206

    Spam Notification in Call Toast

    Who is that? I don't recognize the number. It could be a new customer. It might be a new team member. Oh it's a spam call. That was a distracting waste of time. Get notification of a possible spam call before you answer.

  • Teams Meeting Auto Recording - 365 Message Center Show #201

    Teams Meeting Auto Recording

    Meeting organizers, set an option to automatically start the recording for a Teams meeting when the first person from your org joins the meeting. Sounds good. Though there are a few things to look out for.

  • Custom Backgrounds For Microsoft Teams Together Mode - 365 Message Center Show #197

    Custom Backgrounds For Microsoft Teams Together Mode

    Create custom backgrounds for Microsoft Teams Together Mode using the new Scenes Studio, from the Teams Development Center. Make Muppets out of your meeting members, line them up on Coconut Shie stands. If it helps you 'keep it together' during back to back meetings, almost anything goes.

  • SharePoint Site Templates - 365 Message Center Show #190

    SharePoint Site Templates

    Apply new scenario-based templates to new and existing SharePoint sites. Templates contain pre-populated content and web parts to improve consistency of sites and time-to-collaborate. This week on the 365 Message Center Show In this episode: – SharePoint site templates – Customized backgrounds in Microsoft Teams meeting video coming to mobile devices – Microsoft Search: Earn Microsoft Rewards when using a work or school account – Outlook for iOS – More actions available in New Message and New Event press and hold menus – Microsoft Teams: introducing organization-wide backgrounds (preview) 📢 Quick mentions – short updates and reminders to prepare for major updates – Opt-in to the new Teams live events…

  • SharePoint app bar and global navigation - #183

    SharePoint app bar and global navigation

    This week on the 365 Message Center Show Find your way around your SharePoint Online intranet from any site in SharePoint. The SharePoint app bar makes global navigation, sites, news and recent files easy to reach. We discuss the different navigation options and what this might mean for the current Microsoft 365 app launcher. In this episode: – Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation – Outlook on the web: update in how users access Mail, Calendar, People, and To Do – Allowing anonymous presenters in Teams Live Events – Teams meetings to support view-only attendees 📢 Quick mentions – short updates and reminders to prepare for major…

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    Microsoft Ignite Schedule Builder and a few other MC updates – #162

    This week on the 365 Message Center Show Schedules. When they're live, we get dates and times and can make plans. In this episode we discuss a mysterious “2020 Release Wave 2” message you have to look at closer, the Gallery view for Microsoft Lists and SharePoint. We also talk about the #MSIgnite schedule builder going live, and our recommendations for sessions and tips for attending this colossal virtual conference. – Feature update: Gallery view in Microsoft Lists – New Feature: Inline message translation for Android – Microsoft Forms introduces a responder progress bar – Deployment schedule available for 2020 Release Wave 2 – #MSIgnite Schedule Builder, how to use…

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    Teams custom meeting images – #161

    This week on the 365 Message Center Show Welcome your attendees with your organization's logo in Microsoft Teams meeting lobby and pre-join screens. This small change confirms the organization the meeting is being hosted by. Available to meeting organizers using an Advanced Communication license. – Teams custom meeting images – Introducing floating call controls in Teams meetings – Change to the minimum iOS system requirements for Outlook for iOS and watchOS – Teams meeting participant report updates – Updates to Discover name, feed in Outlook for iOS – Introducing Yammer reactions Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365…